Professor Ibrahim Onour, of the School of Management Studies, University of Khartoum, has been ranked among the top 12% in the Economic departments in Universities and research institutes in Africa continent, according to the periodic ranking conducted by the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, USA.The ranking index is based on 32 criteria including the number of research papers published in international refereed journals and their impact factors, number of citations, and the number of downloads of the published research papers.